IFS

The think-tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has said both the Conservatives and the Labour Party aren’t being honest about the economic consequences of their manifesto proposals. It didn’t look at the manifestos of the Lib Dems, Ukip and other parties. The IFS warned that the Tories’ pledges to boost NHS spending may well be…

The poverty projections released by the IFS and the Joseph Rowntree Trust today are pretty shocking. They are well-covered elsewhere. I would point to two things. One in four children are set to be living in absolute poverty by 2020. The Coalition inherited about one in six children in absolute poverty. the Government’s target under…

Surrounded by death masks and shrouds, the IFS is giving its economic forecasts on the bowels of the British Museum. They are marginally but significantly gloomier than the OBR. blogs Political Editor Gary Gibbon.

Initially I have to confess that I had presumed that the Educational Maintenance Allowance must be a £30 a week bribe likely to be used to download X factor music for near-feral youths. Probably to play through loudspeakers and annoy me on my local bus.

‘Clearly regressive’ are two words that will be sending shivers down the spines of the Coalition ministers. For the first time the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has completed a comprehensive analysis of who will pay for the Budget measures announced in June, known as a distributional analysis in the jargon.